Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Filing bugs for haskell packages

[Bart Massey]

It is possible to set things up so that users can authenticate using
an existing account on Facebook, GitHub, Google, etc. Not sure how
much better this is than from-scratch registration, or how spam-proof
it is, but more and more sites seem to be giving it a go. It at least
amortizes password creation and maintenance.

I think some kind of registration is a pretty low bar for reporting
bugs. I do it all the time for various projects, and it's kind of
expected if you're going to use a bug tracker.

--Bart

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I did exactly this for the
> http at projects.haskell.org list which is listed as the maintainer in the
> cabal file, and the list is overwhelmed by spam.
>
> Some subscribers even get bounced off it by mailman every so often
> because their own spam filtering is better than the pre-list filtering,
> and so they bounce enough of the messages that mailman sends them to
> trigger the "broken email address" check.
>
> I'm vaguely planning on giving up and going back to having myself only
> listed as maintainer as a result. I definitely wouldn't want people to
> have to subscribe to email the maintainer address though.
>
> On 07/02/2014 14:01, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
>> Being able to post without subscription sounds sensible.
>>
>> I'm subscribed to > 10 mailing lists of projects for which I report less
>> than a bug per year because of exactly this problem, and it is very
>> annoying.
>>
>> Even if you take the extra effort and go through a sign up/off for every
>> single bug you want to report, this doesn't really work because you
>> might miss replies in between the signed-up periods, and while you are
>> signed up you get all the clutter from the mailing list that is
>> unrelated to your problem.
>>
>> I recall other projects implementing an open-mailing-list principle
>> (posting without subscription), and I think it works great.
>>
>> On 07/02/14 13:47, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>>> Hi libraries,
>>>
>>> The message below came through Cafe. It reports a problem when emailing
>>> libraries at haskell.org <mailto:libraries at haskell.org>, which is listed as
>>> the maintainer of several public packages. Yet, the list does not accept
>>> emails from non-subscribers. These two facts seem to be at odds, and
>>> turns people away from reporting bugs. Can we fix this? Or, do we want a
>>> separate, world-writable libraries-bugs at haskell.org
>>> <mailto:libraries-bugs at haskell.org>?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Richard
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